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October 30, 2026

Is France’s startup nation falling out of love with Macron?

Amid a debt crisis and mounting social unrest, the French tech sector is wondering what happened to the president’s early promises


For the past decade French president Emmanuel Macron has been seen as a champion of the country’s tech sector, inaugurating his first mandate in 2017 with the promise to transform France into a “startup nation”.

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Daphné Leprince-Ringuet

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet is a senior reporter for Sifted, based in Paris. She covers French tech and writes Sifted's AI and Deeptech newsletter . You can find her on X and LinkedIn

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